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Magic lantern, panorama and moving picture shows in Ireland, 1786-1909 / Kevin Rockett and Emer Rockett.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.I85 R635 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rockett, Kevin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Ireland--History.
- Motion pictures.
- History.
- Ireland.
- Physical Description:
- 403 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : Four Courts Pess, 2011.
- Summary:
- Husband Kevin Rockett (film studies, Trinity College, Dublin) and wife Emer (a lecturer and scholar of visual culture) have collaborated on previous projects pertaining to the history of film in Ireland. Emerging from an interest they developed in the technologies that preceded film, this study offers thorough exploration of themes involving science, entertainment, and economic and commercial aspects of Irish cultural history. A section of b&w historical photos is included. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- 1 The Magic Lantern in Ireland 13
- A world of shadows and the camera obscura 13
- The magic lantern as science and entertainment 17
- A (necessary) digression into magic and sorcery 22
- The magic lantern as phantasmagoria in Ireland: ghost-raising as entertainment 27
- Technical innovations in magic lantern exhibition in the nineteenth century 42
- The magic lantern, education and proselytizing 52
- The magic lantern and Irish politics 68
- The Knock apparition of August 1879 and the magic lantern 72
- 2 Panoramas and Pre-Cinema Moving Images in Ireland 79
- (Irish) origins and contexts of the panorama 79
- Dublin, one of the earliest panorama locations, 1794 92
- Philippe de Loutherbourg's eidophusikon in Ireland 98
- The ascent of the panorama as a commercial entertainment in Ireland 106
- Moving panoramas 117
- Photographing movement 149
- Peepshow motion in Ireland 153
- 3 Creating Entertainment Venues of Surveillance and Control 164
- Fairs, national economy and popular culture 164
- Entertainments at Donnybrook and other fairs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries 169
- Suppression of Donnybrook Fair 174
- Tableaux vivants in Ireland 187
- Creating indoor entertainment venues of surveillance and control 203
- 4 Establishing Moving Picture Exhibition in Ireland, 1895-1909 216
- The first projected moving pictures in Ireland 216
- Discourses of British imperialism in Irish screening practices, 1897-1901 230
- The rise of the Rotunda as a film exhibition venue, 1897-1902 239
- Irish Animated Photo/Picture Company, 1902-9 245.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9781846823152
- 1846823153
- OCLC:
- 744284370
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